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Temuniana was a Roman town of
Diocese of Ballarat Australia
Temuniana was a Roman town of Roman North Africa
Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...
which existed during the Vandal Kingdom, Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
and Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...
.
Archaeology
The Roman town of Temuniana has been tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Temounia, inTunisia
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. These ruins include many subterranean cisterns, There are also remains of pipes and dams.
History
Temuniana was also the seat of an ancientCatholic
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diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
There are three bishops of antiquity known from the town:
*Cresconius, . Plebis Temonianensis. Fl 411.
*Cresconius Temoniarensis, fl.484.
*Victorinus, . Ecc. Temunianensis, fl641.
Today the bishopric survives as a titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbis ...
of the Roman Catholic Church
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. The current bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...
is Robert Anthony Brucato
Robert Anthony Brucato (August 14, 1931 – November 7, 2018) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1997 to 2006.
Biography
Born in the Bronx in New York City, ...
who replaced Peter Joseph Connors of Ballarat in 1997.References
{{reflist Archaeological sites in Tunisia Roman towns and cities in Africa (Roman province)